BigCodeArena: Judging code generations end to end with code executions

BigCodeArena is a new evaluation platform designed to assess code generation models by executing the generated code and measuring their performance end-to-end. The platform enables comprehensive benchmarking across a variety of programming tasks, allowing for real-time execution feedback and comparison of different models. This initiative is significant for practitioners as it provides a standardized method to evaluate the practical utility of code generation systems, ensuring that model outputs are not only syntactically correct but also functionally effective.